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Patent GB-629345-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to medical practice chairs
IPC: A61G15/10
Filed: 1946-12-31
Abstract: 629,345. Medical chairs. RITTER CO., Inc. Dec. 31, 1946, No. 38165. Convention date, July 2. [Class 52 (ii)] . A chair for use in medical practice comprises a frame provided with a seat, a back rest and means connecting the seat and back rest for effecting movement of the back rest from its normal position to one lying substantially in the plane of the seat to convert the chair into a table-like support in such a manner that the back rest, during lowering, is moved towards the seat, and vice versa, in order to obviate relative movement between the patient and the seat or back rest. In its preferred form arm rests 98, foot or leg rests 196 and head rests 217 are also provided and are interconnected for either simultaneous or independent movement ; stirrups 247 with their actuating mechanism are also provided. The means for adjusting the back rest 60 with respect to the seat 49 and the means for releaseably locking it in adjusted positions are described in Specification 629,398. The provision, arrangement, and adjustability of the leg and foot rests and the means for releasably locking them in adjusted positions are described in Specification 629,399. The head rests with its adjusting and locking arrangements are described in Specification 629,400 and the provision, arrangement, adjustment and locking means of the stirrups are described in Specification 629,401. Specification 368,524 also is referred to.
Patent GB-799653-A (GB)
Title: Vacuum drying
IPC: F26B5/06
Filed: 1956-12-14
Abstract: 799,653. Vacuum drying. MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE OF CANADA. Dec. 14, 1956 [Sept. 11, 1956], No. 38262/56. Class 34(2) In apparatus for vacuum drying permeable material e.g. meat, the material is impaled on heat conducting spikes, 13, 14 projecting from heating plates 11, 12 which are housed in an evacuated chamber 21. This ensures more uniform conduction of heat to the interior of the material. The spikes are secured to the plates e.g. by welding, and the uppr ones are staggered with respect to the lower ones to ensure uniform heating. In a modification, see Fig. 6, (not shown) the material is supported by the spikes out of contact with the heating plates and a stripper is placed between the two. The spikes may comprise hollow tubes communicating with the upper surface of the plates and having transverse holes along their length to provide for the escape of water vapour from the interior of the material.
Patent GB-1085058-A (GB)
Title: Carpeting fabrics
IPC: D04B1/02
Filed: 1963-09-28
Abstract: A carpet material is produced by knitting a pile fabric having a ground yarn of a shrinkable material and a pile yarn of relatively low shrinkage and subsequently subjecting the fabric to a heat treatment to cause the ground material to shrink and thereby accentuate and secure the pile loops within the fabric. Various synthetic yarns may be employed for the ground material and the pile yarn can consist of wool, cotton or a synthetic material such as nylon.  Steam or liquid heat treatment may be employed for treating the fabric or alternatively the fabric may be passed through a heated fluidised bed of sand.  The fabric may be produced on a flat bed or circular knitting machine and patterning by using alternative pile feeds may be achieved.  The pile can be cut on the machine.
Patent GB-1306955-A (GB)
Title: High-pressure radiolytic oxidation of cyclohexane
IPC: C07C45/33
Filed: 1970-08-10
Abstract: 1306955 Cyclohexane oxidation UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 10 Aug 1970 [9 Sept 1969] 38355/70 Heading C2C Cyclohexanone is produced by irradiating cyclohexane with penetrative ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays from a Cobalt-60 source, at an oxygen pressure of 100-10,000 p.s.i. and at a temperature in the range 25-38 C.
Patent GB-1007107-A (GB)
Title: Buoyant swimming vest
IPC: B63C9/115
Filed: 1964-09-21
Abstract: 1,007,107. Buoyant garments. KENNETH PETERSON CO. Sept. 21, 1964 [Oct. 4, 1963], No. 38383/64. Heading A3V. A buoyant vest comprises front and rear flexible panels connected by adjustable straps 18, 19 and having inflatable, buoyant gas cells 28 separately, detachably secured thereto as by press stud fastenings 26 attached to tabs on the cells. The panels may be made of rubber or plastics coated waterproof fabric, such as nylon coated with neoprene. The vest is of use to novice swimmers.
Patent GB-1099598-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to an oxygen cutting blowpipe, in particular for cutting a semi-finished product in a continuous metal casting installation
IPC: F23D14/42
Filed: 1966-08-26
Abstract: 1,099,598. Blowpipe burners. GOSUDARSTVENY SOJUZNY INSTITUT PROJEKTIROVANYA METALLOURGITCHESKIKH ZAVODOV. Aug. 26, 1966 [April 15, 1966], No. 38398/66. Heading F4T. An oxygen cutting blowpipe has a head 3 carrying a nozzle 4 with conduit 17 supplied with a mixture of fuel gas and oxygen and a conduit 20 supplied with cutting oxygen, the blowpipe being cooled by water which flows through a pipe 22 to a conduit 23, the nozzle 4 being secured to the head 3 by a cap-like element 24 which forms around the nozzle 4 an annular recess 27 through which the water flows and is discharged via a conduit 28.
Patent GB-1374158-A (GB)
Title: Floatable offshore structures
IPC: E02B17/00
Filed: 1972-08-17
Abstract: 1374158 Offshore structures CHICAGO BRIDGE & IRON CO 17 Aug 1972 [14 Oct 1971] 38439/72 Heading E1H An offshore structure which is floated into position before being sunk to the sea bed comprises skirt-like shell 10 open at the lower end and connected at its lower edge to ballasting means 11, a second skirt 25, connected at its lower edge to the skirt 10 to define a well-space 28 partitioned by members 29, and a hollow cylindrical vessel 14 attached to the shell 10, the vessel 14 being capable of maintaining the buoyancy of the whole structure even when the shell 10 and well-space 10 are filled with water. A platform 22 is supported by a column 21 attached to the top of the vessel 14. In operation, when the structure is located at its correct position an annular trough 12 formed in the ballasting means 11 is filled with liquid, then a portion of the air is vented from shell 10. When the ballasting means 11 is submerged, the well space 28 is filled with water to maintain stability, then the shell 10 is filled with water. The structure remains buoyant until a quantity of water is admitted to vessel 14, the controlled sinking of the structure then occuring. The skirt 25 may be attached to the shell 10 at its upper end having apertures in its upper portion, or it may be outside the shell 10. When in position on the sea bed the shell 10 may be used for storage of oil. For Figure see next column
Patent GB-318074-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with the gear of motor vehicles
IPC: F16D11/10
Filed: 1928-12-31
Abstract: 318,074. Binnie, A. Dec. 31, 1928. Variable-speed toothed gearing.-An auxiliary two speed gear used in conjunction with a main gear box of a vehicle in order to increase the number of speed ratios obtainable, is provided with a double dog clutch L to engage either of two toothed wheels E, F, the clutch teeth being bevelled on the front faces and undercut on the driving sides as shown so that they lock in mesh. Movement of the gear lever M compresses a spring P on the gear-changing fork N, but the change of gear is not effected until the main clutch is withdrawn, both speed-gears being changed simultaneously.
Patent GB-1423289-A (GB)
Title: Method of protecting plants against oxidants
IPC: A01G13/00
Filed: 1973-08-15
Abstract: 1423289 Protecting plants from air pollution TAKASAGO PERFUMERY CO Ltd and JAPAN MONOPOLY CORP [trading as JAPAN TOBACCO & SALT PUBLIC CORP] 15 Aug 1973 [15 Aug 1972] 38627/73 Heading C1B A method of protecting plants against atmospheric oxidant injury comprises applying to said plants one or more compounds containing a methylenedioxyphenyl group, e.g. piperonyl butoxide, safroxan, sesamolin, piperonyl cyclonene, sesamex, sesamin, sulphoxide, propyl isome, piperine, methylenedioxy cinnamic acid, halfsesamin, piperonal or methylenedioxy phthalaldehyde. Specified plants are tobacco plants, tomato plants, egg-plants, kidney bean plants, grape vines and roses.
Patent GB-345332-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fibrous resinous compositions
IPC: C08L1/02
Filed: 1929-12-17
Abstract: A mouldable composition comprises wood fibres containing about 90 per cent or more alpha cellulose and a potentially reactive resinoid binder, for example a phenol-formaldehyde or phenol-fatty oil-methylene condensation product.  Suitable wood pulp is prepared by treating a sulphite pulp with an alkaline liquor such as caustic soda and then bleaching, for example with chlorine. The wood pulp may be laid into paper or sheet form on a paper-making machine and then coated or impregnated with a solution of the resinoid, or the resinoid may be added to the pulp in the beater.
Patent GB-1205390-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the production of steel
IPC: C21C5/04
Filed: 1969-08-01
Abstract: 1,205,390. Open hearth furnaces. RHEINISCHE STAHLWERKE. 1 Aug., 1969, No. 38718/69. Addition to 1,094,066. Heading F4B. The reversible open hearth furnace of the parent case is provided with compressed air inlet nozzles 9 at either end, adjacent the passages leading to the regenerators (not shown). Between 4% and 16% of the quantity of air supplied from the regenerators to the furnace, is additionally injected through the nozzles 9, at a pressure of from 3 to 9 atmospheres absolute, and a temperature of 400-600‹ C., to entrain the preheated air from the regenerators and direct it on to the surface of the melt in the hearth. The nozzles are so directed that the air streams in the horizontal plane expand from them at angles of 5 degrees to the furnace longitudinal central axis, and therefore do not impinge on the front or rear furnace walls. The inoperative nozzles (not shown) associated with the regenerator into which for the time being exhaust gases from the furnace are passing, are kept cool, either by water or by cold compressed air.
Patent GB-1214025-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in apparatus for loading pallets with articles
IPC: B65G57/00
Filed: 1968-08-14
Abstract: 1,214,025. Pallet loader. HOLSTEIN & KAPPERT MASCHINENFABRIK PHOENIX G.m.b.H. 14 Aug., 1968 [5 Sept., 1967], No. 38829/68. Heading B8C. Apparatus for loading pallets with piece goods, e.g. crates, comprises a feed conveyer, a collecting station for rows of piece goods, a pusher member acting at right angles to the feed direction, a second collecting station and a carriage for carrying piece goods from the second collecting station to a pallet on to which they are transferred by a stripper wherein the second collecting station has one or more cantilever arms which project into recesses in the carriage and wherein the feed conveyer, collecting stations, carriage and stripper are all two tiered. The lower carriage may be vertically movable relative to the upper carriage. Crates are supplied by conveyers 4, 4<SP>1</SP> (not shown) to collecting stations 13, 13<SP>1</SP> and are moved transversely by pusher members 7, 7<SP>1</SP> to the second collecting station 6, 6<SP>1</SP> formed as cantilever arms which extend into the carriages 8, 8<SP>1</SP>. A pallet transporter 1 supplies pallets to a pallet lift device 2 and a pallet is raised to the position shown. The carriages 8, 8<SP>1</SP> are moved to a position above the pallet, the lower carriage 8<SP>1</SP> is raised, either by the means connecting it to carriage 8 or by the pallet, the strippers 12, 12<SP>1</SP> are moved into position and the carriages are returned leaving the crates on the pallet. The pallet lift device may then be lowered and the process repeated until the pallet has the required load.
Patent GB-1510640-A (GB)
Title: Combined workpiece pusher and extractor
IPC: F27D3/04
Filed: 1975-08-29
Abstract: 1510640 Reciprocating pushers DAVYLOEWY Ltd 29 Aug 1975 [6 Sept 1974] 38945/74 Heading B8A [Also in Division F4] A workpiece manipulator suitable for use in a furnace, pusher or for loading and unloading conveyers comprises a pair of elongate members 2 carrying at their ends a manipulator head 4 having a plurality of vertically depending members 5. Each member 5 has a channel section 12 secured to a lug 6 on the manipulator head by a stud 8. A pusher arm 16 is pivotally mounted at 18 in each channel section 12 and has an upper extension 20 that can engage a stirrup latch 22 pivoted at 24 to the lug 6. The lower part of each arm 16 has a channel recess 26 to house a finger 28 pivotable about a pin 30. During normal pushing operations the fingers 28 are held retracted by pins 32, and pusher arms 16 in the vertical position engage the workpiece when the members 2 are displaced forwardly. For reversing the operation to remove workpieces, the arms 16 are raised so that the extension 20 is held in the stirrup latch 22 and pins 32 are removed and the fingers allowed to hang downwardly as at 28A. When members 2 are extended fingers 28 pivot to pass over the workpieces and then fall into the gap between workpieces as at 28B. Movement of the members 2 is then reversed and the fingers rotate until the face 36 abuts the face 26. Further pivoting of the fingers is thus prevented and the workpiece is pulled in the reverse direction.
Patent GB-1356816-A (GB)
Title: Phonograph
IPC: G11B33/06
Filed: 1971-08-20
Abstract: 1356816 Rotating pick up gramophones YUGEN-KAISHA WATANABE KENKYUSHO 20 Aug 1971 [12 May 1971] 39165/71 Heading G5R In a stationary record, rotating pick up, gramophone, the pivotal movement of a record holder 34, when loaded with a rectangular record 27 carrying a spiral groove, to its closed and latched position automatically energizes the gramophone. When the record is entered into the holder and this is moved to its latched position an actuator 39 operates switch 40, 41 in the supply to drive motor 6. This via belt 10 drives a first rotary plate 8 on which a second plate 12 is pivotally mounted on shaft 11. The second plate 12 carries loud-speaker 13 having a spring 15 extending between the apex of its cone and the plate 8 and the upward pivotal movement of the plate is limited by stop 16 mounted on plate 8. A vibration transmitting element 17 extends from the apex of the speaker cone to a rod 18 extending upwardly from plate 12 and a bracket 19 on the frame 14 of the speaker supports a shaft 20 on which pick up arm 21 is carried. In operation the stylus 22 on the pick up arm is urged into engagement with the record by the pressure applied by spring 15 via the speaker apex, the vibration transmitting element 17 and the pick up arm. The engagement of the pick up arm with the element 17 transmits the sound signals to the speaker cone. At the end of record play, an extension 26 on the pivot end of the pick up arm engages an extension of latch release arm 29 whereby holder 34 pivots upwardly, under the action of spring 35, to its unlatched position. The pick up arm now disengaged from the record is pivoted back to its start position by spring 23.
Patent GB-340408-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electrically driven floor treating apparatus
IPC: A47L11/40
Filed: 1929-12-23
Abstract: 340,408. Waxing, polishing, &c., machines. ELECTROLUX, Ltd., 153, Regent Street, London.-(Assignees of Inventia Patent-Verwertungs-Ges.; 10, Herrenacker, Schaffhausen, Switzerland.) Dec. 23, 1929, No. 39258. Convention date, Dec. 24, 1928. [Class 138 (i).] An electrically-driven polishing, waxing, or scrubbing apparatus of the type having a pivoted manipulating handle, the position of which determines the operation of the motorcontrolling switch, is provided with a two-armed lever one arm of which is controlled by the handle and the other controls the switch operation. As shown, the double-armed lever 15 is acted on by a handle 11, which is provided with a boss 13 engaging surfaces 16, 26, 29 in the various positions of the handle, the surface 29 providing for a dwell period corresponding to an angle 8 through which the handle may be moved while the switch remains in the "on" position. The lever 15, which is rotatably mounted on the holder 17 of one of the commutator brushes, is provided with two clawlike members 19 engaging a switch lever 20. Specification 289,396, [Class 138 (i), Washing and cleaning buildings &c.], is referred to.
Patent GB-1444006-A (GB)
Title: Waterproofing water-soluble and water-swellable organic binders  and adhesives
IPC: C08L3/00
Filed: 1973-08-21
Abstract: 1444006 Water-soluble or -swellable adhesive compositions BASF AG 21 Aug 1973 [22 Aug 1972] 39371/73 Headings C3P C3R and C3U Water-soluble or water-swellable organic adhesive materials are rendered waterproof by adding thereto a condensate obtained in aqueous solution of (i) melamine or a mixture of melamine and at least one other compound condensable with formaldehyde, and (ii) 1À5-8 molar proportions of formaldehyde or the equivalent amount of a compound yielding it, or a precondensate of (i) and (ii) which may be etherified, with (iii) 0À22-2 molar proportions, considered as HSO 3 - of a sulphite and/or bisulphite or a material yielding sulphite ions. A suitable amount of additive is 0À5-10%, based on solids, of the adhesive material. Suitable adhesives include starch and its derivatives and degradation products, proteinaceous materials, (meth)acrylic acid polymers and copolymers and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Other compounds condensable with formaldehyde include urea, dicyandiamide, amines, carbonamides, phenols and resorcinol. In the Examples a 40% aqueous condensate is prepared of melamine, formaldehyde, sodium bisulphite and sodium sulphite in the molar ratio 1 : 5 : 0À8 : 0À16 (the latter two calculated as HSO 3 -) or (in Example 4) 1 : 3À33 : 0À67 :-. It is added to a 50% dextrin, 20% starch, 5% carboxymethyl starch or 20% PVA solution in amounts of 3-10% on a solids basis, and these solutions are used to gum paper sheets together.
Patent GB-1148089-A (GB)
Title: Sealed container with crown closure
IPC: B65D41/04
Filed: 1967-08-29
Abstract: 1,148,089. Caps for bottles &c. ARMSTRONG CORK CO. 29 Aug., 1967 [29 Aug., 1966], No. 39443/67. Heading B8T. A bottle &c. crown cap is formed with a plastics, cork, rubber &c. sealing ring 4 which engages the top flat sealing surface 9 and the flat inner surface 10 of the bottle &c. neck, the two surfaces 9, 10 being joined by a sharp corner 7 having a radius of curvature of more than one-thirtysecond of an inch. The cap skirt 2 is fluted and is deformed to engage threads 6 around the bottle &c. neck. The flat inner surface 10 in the bottle &c. neck extends inwardly from the corner for at least one-sixtyfourth of an inch.
Patent GB-1019353-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to antifoam agents
IPC: C08K3/36
Filed: 1962-10-18
Abstract: An alkali-resistant antifoam agent is made by reacting together, preferably by heating, a mixture of (1) 70 to 99% (by wt.) of a methylpolysiloxane having a viscosity of 5 to 3000 cs. at 25 DEG  C., a CH3/Si ratio of from 1.8: 1 to 2.2: 1 and containing 0.25 to 25 mol. per cent (CH3)3SiO1/2 units, 0 to 10 mol. per cent CH3SiO3/2 units and/or SiO2 units, and 65 to 99.75 mol. per cent (CH3)2SiO units, and (2) 1 to 30% of a pulverulent inorganic filler having an average particle size of from 0.01 to 25 microns, in the presence of (3) 0.01 to 5%, by wt. of (1), of an acid condensation catalyst. The siloxanes may also contain Si-bonded hydroxy, alkoxy or acyloxy radicals. Fillers specified are Al2O3, TiO2 and SiO2 (precipitated, fume, aerogel and xerogel).  Catalysts specified are AlCl3, FeCl3, SnCl4, TiCl4, BF3, ZnCl2, phosphorous nitriles, organonitrogen derivatives of H3PO4 and H3PO3, H2SO4 and alkylsulphuric acids.  If desired the reaction can be effected in an inert liquid, preferably an organic solvent, and after completion of the reaction the product can be homogenized on a 3-roll mill or in a high-speed mixer.  In a typical Example (1) a mixture of a trimethylsiloxy-end blocked dimethyl-polysiloxane, a hydroxy-terminated dimethylpolysiloxane, silica aerogel and AlCl3 was heated for 10 hours at 180 DEG  C. Uses.-They can be used per se or in the form of dispersions in inert organic solvents or aqueous emulsions, as additives for alkaline cleaning products, e.g. commercial soap and detergent laundry products for use in washing machines where the development of foam is undesirable. They can be added to laundry powders in the form of dispersions in organic solvents or water, with subsequent removal of solvent or water.
Patent GB-1035622-A (GB)
Title: Two-sheet detector mechanism for printing machines
Inventor: WERKMEISTER GOTTRIED WILHELM L
IPC: B65H7/12
Filed: 1961-11-06
Abstract: 1,035,622. Feeding sheets. FRANK F. PERSHKE Ltd. Nov. 5, 1962 [Nov. 6, 1961], No. 39633/61. Heading B6B. In a printing machine, such as a stopcylinder printing machine, wherein sheets are separated from a pile by one feed-bar fitted with suction cups, and are fed to the front lays on a feed table by a second feed-bar having suction cups thereon, the second feed-bar 21 is fitted with an unyielding feeler 22 which cooperates with a spring-urged tappet 25 disposed in an opening in the feed table 23 to detect the presence of two superposed sheets. The tappet is supported by a leaf spring 30 on a microswitch in a box 33 fitted with a wedge-shaped block 34, and the switch and the box are secured to a leaf-spring 27 fixed to a bracket 28. The block 34 is engaged by one end 35b of a spindle 35 which has screw-thread connection with a frame 37, and has an indicator knob 38 bearing micrometer markings. Thus, when the knob 38 is rotated, the block 34, switch, and tappet 25 are adjusted finely. The tappet 25 is set to allow a single sheet to pass thereover without being depressed by the feeler 22, when the latter is moved into operative position above the tappet. When, however, two superimposed sheets are fed by the feed-bar on to the table, the tappet 25 will be depressed to operate the micro-switch, and the machine is stopped. In a modification, the adjustable tappet 25 and switch are carried by the feedbar 21, and the surface of the table 23 serves as an unyielding feeler.
Patent GB-347587-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to glass annealing lehrs
IPC: C03B25/06
Filed: 1929-12-28
Abstract: 347,587. Glass-annealing leers. PILKINGTON BROS., Ltd., 631, Tower Building, Water Street, Liverpool, and LE MARE, E. B., Holly Mount, Laurel Road, St. Helens, Lancashire. Dec. 28, 1929, No. 39676. [Class 51 (ii).] Charges, conveying.-In a roller-way glassannealing leer, permanent deforation of the glass is prevented by the provision, in the solidification zone of the leer, of rollers which are rotated, some in a forward and some in a reverse direction, more rapidly than those in the first section of the leer, the resultant forward speed of all the rollers in the solidification zone being equal to that of the preceding rollers. In the example shown, the rollers in the first section of the leer are driven forwardly at a constant speed by bevel gearing 1, 2, while in the following section, i.e. the solidification zone, alternate rollers are driven forwardly and rearwardly at five times and four times respectively the speed of the preceding rollers. The rearwardly rotating rollers are driven by bevel gearing 4, 5 from the main shaft 3, the latter being arranged to actuate a counter-shaft 10 from which motion is transmitted to the alternate high-speed forward rollers through bevel gearing 8, 9 and interengaging pinions 6, 7.